U.S. Undocumented Taxpayers Won't Qualify For The $2T Federal Emergency Spending Coronavirus Stimulus Aid

The U.S. Congress and Trump have ignored the plight of the U.S. undocumented taxpayer in the country during the Coronavirus pandemic 2020 by not making them part of receiving any of the $2T federal stimulus aid that was passed by Congress and signed into law by Trump.

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

March 28, 2020

Washington, D.C. - The U.S. undocumented taxpayer (nearly 8M, about 57% of immigrants in the U.S.) and their families were not included by the U.S. Congress and President Donald Trump to receive any federal emergency stimulus aid from the Coronavirus Emergency Spending Bill that was just passed and signed into law by Trump to help U.S. citizens and legal status immigrants during the pandemic economic crisis, which millions of workers became unemployed (more than 3,283,000 unemployment claims were filed during the week ending March 21, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor reported), when businesses, corporations and etc. shut down during the 'Stay at Home' order and lock down enacted by state governors, County and municipal officials throughout the country and U.S. territories including Puerto Rico to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19).

Most U.S. undocumented taxpayers with an ITIN, a taxing IRS number, which is an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number used as a tax processing number that was issued by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for those that don't have a Social Security number) have become unemployed and their families are enduring economic plight to survive as most Americans in the U.S., including those undocumented taxpayers that don't have an ITIN number, but do pay federal and state taxes and don't file for tax refunds at the end of the year.

Unfortunately, Congress and Trump didn't take into account that U.S. undocumented taxpayers are the backbone of the economic fabric of the U.S. economy.

Also, most state governors and state legislatures in the U.S. have not enacted an economic stimulus aid for the undocumented taxpayers currently unemployed and closed businesses during the pandemic.

For example: 

The Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy (ITEP) reported that,

• Undocumented immigrants contribute significantly to state and local taxes, collectively paying an estimated $11.74 billion a year. Contributions range from just over $550,000 in Montana with an estimated undocumented population of 1,000 to more than $3.1 billion in California, home to more than 3 million undocumented immigrants.

• Undocumented immigrants nationwide pay on average an estimated 8 percent of their incomes in state and local taxes (this is their effective state and local tax rate). To put this in perspective, the top 1 percent of taxpayers pay an average nationwide effective tax rate of just 5.4 percent.

• Granting legal status to all undocumented immigrants in the United States as part of a comprehensive immigration reform and allowing them to work legally would increase their state and local tax contributions by an estimated $2.18 billion a year. Their nationwide effective state and local tax rate would increase to 8.6 percent. (ITEP updated (2017) data of undocumented taxpayers in the U.S. link: https://bit.ly/39lbxBG)

• In Wisconsin, undocumented immigrants paid $21,7 million in personal income, $6.1 million in property taxes and $66.5 million in sale taxes in 2010 totaling at least $94.4M, according to the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy study.

• Undocumented workers in Texas pay $11.6B annually in taxes, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.

• Undocumented immigrants paid $35B within 10 years to the Medicare Trust Fund even when they don't qualify for benefits. (HNNUSA/Hispanic News Network U.S.A.)

• The Social Security Administration reported that in the Earning Suspense File has $1.3T in taxes in earn wages, which most of it was collected from undocumented immigrants.  (The Atlantic)

• In 2014, Stephen Goss, the Chief Actuary of the Social Security Administration told Vice News that in the last decade, an estimated 11M undocumented immigrants reside in the U.S. and about 7M are unauthorized workers and 3.1M of those worked with fake or expired Social Security numbers and paid automatic payroll taxes to the federal government. In 2010, a $13B annual net contribution was made to the Social Security Trust Fund.

• In the last ten years (prior to 2017), unauthorized workers have paid an estimated $100B into the trust fund and most of the unauthorized workers will never benefit from their tax contributions later in life, according to Goss.  (HNNUSA/Hispanic News Network U.S.A.)

• Only 3.5% of undocumented immigrants make up a small segment of the total population in the U.S. and make up 5% of the labor force in the country (Pew Research Center)

• In 2015, Hispanics purchasing power reached $1.5T, an increase of 50% since 2010. Hispanic women control a majority of house spending. Women spend $3.3B in foot wear, according to the Nielsen report.

36-year-old Jose Santiago Found Fatally Shot Inside Parked Vehicle In Milwaukee

Santiago was found deceased with a gunshot wound inside a parked vehicle.

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

March 24, 2020

Milwaukee, Wisconsin- On Monday, Milwaukee police around 6:00 p.m. responded to a welfare check call indicating a man had passed out inside a parked vehicle at S. 13th Street and W. Howard Ave. When police arrived at the location, they found Jose Santiago, 36, deceased from a gunshot wound while inside a vehicle.

The Milwaukee Police Department homicide division is currently investigating the case.

Santiago was originally from Ponce, Puerto Rico. He was also a motorcycle enthusiast and a member of the MIXFITS Motorcycle Club from Milwaukee and is survived by his wife and son.

Unemployment Rate Under The Trump Administration And The COVID-19 Pandemic Economic Crisis Will Reach More Than 30% In The U.S.

Today's unemployment rate under the Trump administration and the COVID-19 pandemic economic crisis will reach more than 30% compared to the Great Depression of 1933, which reached 24.9% unemployment.

March 23, 2020

The U.S. unemployment rate for the Great Depression of 1933 was 24.9%, in the coming months, the unemployment rate under the Trump administration and the COVID-19 pandemic economic crisis will reach more than 30% in the U.S.

In the week ending March 21, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 3,283,000, an increase of 3,001,000 from the previous week's revised level. This marks the highest level of seasonally adjusted initial claims in the history of the seasonally adjusted series. The previous high was 695,000 in October of 1982. The previous week's level was revised up by 1,000 from 281,000 to 282,000. The 4-week moving average was 998,250, an increase of 765,750 from the previous week's revised average. The previous week's average was revised up by 250 from 232,250 to 232,500, reported the U.S. Department of Labor (3/26/2020) https://dol.gov/ui/data.pdf

Source: Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

Undocumented Detainees And Children In Cages Have Been Forgotten During The COVID-19 Pandemic In The U.S., President Trump Should Release Them Now

All non-violent undocumented immigrants detained including children in cages by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, private prisons and private run detention centers should be released by Trump during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis.

By H. Nelson Goodson

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

March 20, 2020

Washington, D.C. - Since the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic breakout, no effort has been made by Trump to release all non-violent undocumented immigrants including children held in cages being detained by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), private prisons and detention centers around the country and Texas as a health safety measure to keep them from being infected as well. According to the mainstream media, a medical staff employee at the ICE private detention center operated by CoreCivic in Elizabeth, New Jersey has tested COVID-19 positive. At least 195 undocumented detainees are currently at the facility, which has a capacity to hold 300. No confirmation has been released whether undocumented detainees at the facility had been infected with the deadly virus.

Most Americans are preoccupied by their own fate and dilemma of being out of work during the COVID-19 pandemic. The U.S. Congress, Trump and state governors around the U.S. are working to provide resources, pay checks, unemployment compensation and economic aid to most U.S. citizens, small businesses and legal status citizens living in the U.S., but it seems that the undocumented workers in the U.S. who have paid billions of dollars in federal taxes including millions of dollars in state taxes, since after the former President Ronald Regan Amnesty passed, but actually don't file for a tax reimbursement, but by no fault of their own have become the vulnerable and forgotten taxpayers by the U.S. Congress and Trump who are paid by the same tax dollars the IRS and states have collected from the undocumented taxpayers.

The undocumented taxpayers have contributed more than 

Former President George W. Bush and former President Barack H. Obama were able to tab into the suspended IRS account of billions of tax dollars that undocumented workers paid to the IRS and the millions of dollars paid in combined taxes to states without filing yearly tax refunds, which the country was actually bailed out during the recession in early 2016.

Statistics:

Each non-criminal undocumented immigrant detained and later removed from a community will create an economic gap of about $25k to $50k in earned income including personal, sales tax, consumption of goods and property tax generated loss annually. Also, it will cost the state and the U.S. government approximately up to $10K or more in deportation costs including holding the undocumented inmate at a local county jail or Private Prison Corporations (PPC), which costs between $130 to $330 per day to hold at a PPC, in addition immigration court costs and flight costs to country of orgin.

Obama during the end of his term attempted to phase out private prisons when contracts expired, but Trump's U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions recinded that memo and is promoting to continue to contract with PPCs. According to a 2015 report by the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, PPC's earned $3B for holding ICE detainees. An estimated 34,000 of undocumented immigrants are incarcerated daily costing about $159 each to hold.

So, the U.S. economic stability in some urban and rural communities, which depend on undocumented labor including farm and dairy workers are faced with a loss of workers that can't easily be replaced once removed by the Trump's ICE initiative. Does Trump and his administration know that every non-criminal undocumented immigrant removed from the local and the U.S. economic system has a long lasting effect in the areas from which removed?

• In Wisconsin, undocumented immigrants paid $21,7 million in personal income, $6.1 million in property taxes and $66.5 million in sale taxes in 2010 totaling at least $94.4M, according to the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy study.

• Undocumented workers in Texas pay $11.6B annually in taxes, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.

• Undocumented immigrants paid $35B within 10 years to the Medicare Trust Fund even when they don't qualify for benefits. (HNNUSA/Hispanic News Network U.S.A.)

• The Social Security Administration reported that in the Earning Suspense File has $1.3T in taxes in earn wages, which most of it was collected from undocumented immigrants.  (The Atlantic)

• In 2014, Stephen Goss, the Chief Actuary of the Social Security Administration told Vice News that in the last decade, an estimated 11M undocumented immigrants reside in the U.S. and about 7M are unauthorized workers and 3.1M of those worked with fake or expired Social Security numbers and paid automatic payroll taxes to the federal government. In 2010, a $13B annual net contribution was made to the Social Security Trust Fund.

In the last ten years (2017), unauthorized workers have paid an estimated $100B into the trust fund and most of the unauthorized workers will never benefit from their tax contributions later in life, according to Goss.  (HNNUSA/Hispanic News Network U.S.A.)

Trump To Declare Martial Law, Mandatory One Week Or More Quarantine For All U.S. Citizens, Deploying National Guard And Military To Prevent Uprising And Looting

Trump preparing to announce a national curfew and one or more weeks of quarantine for all U.S. citizens in all 50 U.S. States and Puerto Rico.

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

March 19, 2020

Washington, D.C. - On Wednesday, a majority of National Guard personnel from around the U.S. received a dispatch from military command in coordination with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to pack and prepare for a 30-day nationwide mobilization deployment within days. Trump will be forced to declare Martial Law, if the COVID-19 is not controlled from spreading from state to state and each State governor is doing their best to deal with the pandemic.

The National Guard along with the military and local law enforcement agencies will be in charge of enforcing a national curfew and a one week or more of quarantine for all U.S. citizens, non-citizens in the country and in Puerto Rico, according to law enforcement and military sources.

The national curfew and the one week mandatory quarantine for all U.S. citizens and non-citizens in the country will be enacted once the National Guard is deployed and ready to assume enforcement of Martial Law to prevent any anticipated citizen uprising, rioting and looting.

No specific details have been announced by the U.S. government and the Trump administration concerning the mandatory closings of all businesses and how food, water and other items will be available to U.S. citizens, non-citizens and Puerto Rico. 

Currently in most U.S. States only bars and restaurants have been closed to prevent Coronavirus (COVID-19) infections and a limit for more than 10 people in public and private gatherings is prohibited and restaurants that have carryout have been allowed to sell food. Also, many businesses, malls  and major retail stores have voluntarily closed within the last four days.

Multiple governors, County executives and mayors of cities have declared a State of Emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic and have issued Executive Orders on how to proceed with the emergency, but have failed to include a health safety net for State, County and local employees with complications with health issues as asthma and etc., which would put them at high risk for the COVID-19 infection.

In Puerto Rico (PR), Wanda Vázquez Garced, the governor is working to suspend all air flights to PR and from PR to the mainland and other destinations for 14-days.

People in the U.S. should prepared for the one week or more of a mandatory quarantine.

Cuba developed the COVID-19 vaccine (Interferon Alfa 2B) and shared it with China during the pandemic...the U.S. has yet to request the vaccine from Cuba... https://youtu.be/YST6dtmWEZ0

Also, U.S. Department of Justice under U.S. Attorney General William Barr who was placed in the position by Trump has asked the U.S. Congress to craft legislation allowing chief judges to indefinitely hold people without trial and suspend other constitutionally-protected rights during coronavirus and other emergencies, according to a report by Politico.

New York's COVID-19 Mandatory Restrictions And Containment Centers (Camps) Could Serve As A Model Throughout The U.S.

COVID-19 mandatory restrictions and containment centers (camps) in the State of New York could serve as a model throughout the U.S.

By H. Nelson Goodson

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

March 18, 2020

NY: At least 10K people were tested and 1,700 tested positive for Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) with 12 reported deaths in the state including 7 in NYC and 20% of the people infected needed to be quarantine (hospitalized) in New York City as of Tuesday. NY will setup containment centers in each county affected with a high percentage of those quarantine with the help of the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers. No family members will be allowed to visit those in quarantine, according to NY state sources.

So far, there is at least 50% of the government workforce active and bars including restaurants are closed for indoor and outdoor dining. Carry out only food service will be allowed.  

The NY Department of Motor Vehicle stop providing in-person service and only online service available.

All NY public and private schools up to grade 12th are close and could remain closed until the end of the school year.

A mandatory restriction of more than 10 people in a gathering is prohibited throughout the state. People are advised to stay home and restrict travel unless shopping for food, medicine and water.

Also, it is believed that it will take between 45 to 60 days when the Coronavirus pandemic will peak.

The feds, state, county and municipal officials are expected to implement similar model mandatory restrictions in other counties throughout the states depending on the severity of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Within months, it is expected that more the 55K will be infected with the COVID-19 in the U.S. Tens of thousands of people in the U.S. are believed to have been infected already and could be carriers, but might not be aware, since the symptoms take more than 14 days to appear.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as of March 17, 2020 reported (https://bit.ly/2U0kawU): 

• Total cases reported: 4,226 

• Total deaths: 75

Jurisdictions reporting cases: 53 (49 states, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and US Virgin Islands)

The White House confirmed that every U.S. state has reported COVID-19 cases with infections.

Those young people that are infected with the COVID-19 and survive would live with a damage lung or organ, according to Prabhjot Singh, a physician and health systems expert at Mount Sinai Health System and the Icahn School of Medicine (Hill dot com).

More than 180K COVID-19 cases have been reported with more than 7,100 deaths worldwide.

Clifton A. Blackwell Who Doused Muhad Villalaz, Originally From Peru With Chemical Acid During An Alleged Racially Motivated Attack In November Placed On GPS Ankle Monitoring

Blackwell was released on GPS ankle monitoring, he was charged in connection with the chemical acid attack of Muhad Villalaz on November 1st in Milwaukee's Southside.

By H. Nelson Goodson

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

Match 11, 2020

Milwaukee, WI - On March 5, 2020, Clifton A. Blackwell, 62, was in court and his bail was modified and continued on GPS ankle monitoring under the following conditions per week, the defendant is permitted release for medical, meetings with Attorney, 1 trip to check cashing, 2 trips to grocery store of choice, all with verifications in connection with the chemical acid attack of Muhad Villalaz 42, on November 1st in Milwaukee's Southside, according to Milwaukee County Court records. 

Villalaz is originally from Peru and became a U.S. Citizen. According to Villalaz, Blackwell called him an "illegal", including other racial slurs and told him that he should go back to his country.

On March 3, 2020, the Justice Point dot Org. notified Villalaz that Blackwell has been released on GPS ankle monitoring on February 13, 2020, as a condition of bail. Blackwell was prohibited by Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Glenn H. Yamahiro from coming within 500 feet from Villalaz's home.

Blackwell was charged on November 6, 2019 in Milwaukee County with one felony count of 1st- degree reckless injury with a hate crime enhancer including use of a dangerous weapon in connection with the November 1st chemical acid attack of Villalaz. If convicted, Blackwell is facing up to 25 years in prison and up to $100,000 in fines.

Blackwell's next court hearing is on April 8.

Villalaz in November was hospitalized after he was attacked by Blackwell with the chemical acid during a verbal dispute at the 2600 block of  S. 13th Street in the Southside of Milwaukee, according to the criminal complaint. 

Villalaz had just arrived at the Taqueria La Sierrita restaurant located at S. 13 and W. Cleveland when he encountered Blackwell and got into a verbal dispute over a parking spot near a bus route 19 stop before the suspect threw the chemical acid at Villalaz, after telling him to go back to his country including using other verbal racial slurs and then fled on foot.

Blackwell and Villalaz's verbal dispute including Blackwell dousing Villalaz with the chemical acid was recorded by an outdoor video surveillance camera from the restaurant. Blackwell was taken into custody by police shortly after the incident. Police had an encounter with Blackwell for a prior unrelated incident in the area. 

Blackwell is a U.S. military Veteran and served in the U.S. Marines, which his family says suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). In 2006, Blackwell was convicted for a felony charge in Rusk County for pointing a weapon at an individual. 

Blackwell is a Trump supporter, according to a woman that operates a local business, which Blackwell used to frequent and is considered a racist just like Trump himself.

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett condemned Blackwell's acid attack on Villalaz and blamed Trump's anti-immigrant and hate rhetoric including his attempt to divide the country. 

So far, none of the Wisconsin Latino MAGAs (Make America Great Again/Keep America Great/Latinos for Trump) who are local Trump supporters that created a fake Latino MAGA Facebook page to promote hate and Nazi propaganda to target Latinos in the Hispanic community and to also raise campaign donations for Trump in the state, including the Republican Party of Wisconsin and Republican State legislators in control of the state legislature have not come forward publicly to condemn the racially motivated acid attack of Villalaz by Blackwell.